Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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RUBBISH. IN 22 YEARS' ASSOCIATION WITH HUBBLE I HAVE NEVER HEARD HIM USE PROFANITY. THE ATTRIBUTED REMARK IS COMPLETELY OUT OF CHARACTER...
...Use Your Judgment." The picture-taking went off like clockwork. Each photographer got his one shot in turn; there was no scrambling for position, no request for "just one more." Between the still pictures and movies, Dewey remembered that it was time to order dinner. He asked Paul Lockwood, his burly secretary, to do it. "Use your own judgment, Paul," he called. "Get three lamb chops and three steaks, six double V-8 cocktails, salad, corn, string beans, and chocolate ice cream...
...Boston last week, Ginn & Co., largest publisher of schoolbooks in the U.S., rushed a revision of its bestselling World Geography by Geologist John Hodgdon Bradley. Texas, which would use 10,000 copies of the book, had objected to some of the nice things Bradley (an exmarine) had to say about Russia, when he wrote the book in 1945. The new World Geography for Texas, with the author's consent, would call Russia the "biggest" instead of the "greatest" nation in Europe, reduce the Soviet government's achievements from "mighty" to "considerable," downgrade Russia's claim to warm...
Busiest & Safest. Today the elevator is not only the busiest but the safest form of transportation. Last year, in Manhattan alone, 31,500 elevators carried between four and five billion passengers, injured only 118, killed 15. Half of the accidents were caused by the careless use of keys to elevator shaft doors (people step into cars that aren't there...
Impressed, tight-fisted John Taber's committee approved the biggest appropriation yet for Hargrave's stockpilers: $300 million for emergency use, $300 million for long-term contracting. Though Congress approved, Hargrave still had $2.5 billion to go if the five-year program was to be completed on schedule...